3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Champion Power Equipment does not advise a particular brand of oil. The recomendation in their manuals can be found here.
Many on this forum insist on synthetic oil, others use conventional dinosaur blended oils.
My personal preference is a synthetic oil due to their superior high temperature oxidation resistance, high film strength, very low tendancy to form deposits, stable viscosity base, and low temperature flow characteristics.
In the past, I have frequently used Mobil 1 5W30 synthetic. But, after learning that it is void of zinc, I may switch to a synthetic that still contains zinc. They are all about the same price, so the switch would be no big deal.
Mr Wizard has more hours on his Champion than any other user I know of on this forum since he runs it on a daily basis. Based on his success, you may want to wait and see what his reply is and follow the same procedure. It is hard to argue with success.
pritch272 wrote:
One more question, which oil is recommended for both the break-in and after? I've read a ka-zillion posts, and Prof noted he might switch to Kendall GT-1, would that be a full or blended synthetic? Would that work for break-in or after?
Sorry if this has been asked and answered, but I don't recall having seen it yet. Oh, and I'm talking about the C46540...
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Champion Power Equipment does not advise a particular brand of oil. The recomendation in their manuals can be found here.
Many on this forum insist on synthetic oil, others use conventional dinosaur blended oils.
My personal preference is a synthetic oil due to their superior high temperature oxidation resistance, high film strength, very low tendancy to form deposits, stable viscosity base, and low temperature flow characteristics.
In the past, I have frequently used Mobil 1 5W30 synthetic. But, after learning that it is void of zinc, I may switch to a synthetic that still contains zinc. They are all about the same price, so the switch would be no big deal.
Mr Wizard has more hours on his Champion than any other user I know of on this forum since he runs it on a daily basis. Based on his success, you may want to wait and see what his reply is and follow the same procedure. It is hard to argue with success.
